Cyclosporin synthetase is a 1.4 MDa multienzyme polypeptide Re‐evaluation of the molecular mass of various peptide synthetases
- 3 August 1992
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 307 (3) , 355-360
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-5793(92)80712-p
Abstract
The earlier determined molecular mass of 0.8 MDa for the multifunctional polypeptide, cyclosporin synthetase, was re‐evaluated by SDS‐PAGE and CsCl density gradient centrifugation. In SDS‐PAGE, new molecular mass values as standards were available from sequencing data. In the CsCl density gradient extremly low protein concentrations, such as 10–50 nM could be analysed due to the fluorescence detection system of the analytical ultracentrifuge. Both methods yielded approximately the same value of about 1.4 MDa. Using this molecular mass of cyclosporin synthetase as a reference the molecular masses of various related enzymes could be re‐evaluated in SDS‐PAGE. The sedimentation coefficient of 26.3 S for cyclosporin synthetase indicates an oblate overall shape of the enzyme.Keywords
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